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SeniorNet (Palmerston North) Inc. Suite 2/105 Princess Street,
Palmerston North 4410 Phone 06 359,4367
Email: [email protected]
Website: seniornet.inspire.net.nz
Facebook/ Palmerstonnorthseniornet
Office Hours: 10am - 12pm
Monday to Friday Palmerston North
Newsletter
December 2018
Presidents Report / Note to Members
Well this year has almost come to a close and at Palmerston North
SeniorNet. We have enjoyed a nice range of courses and workshops and we have now been a full year in our current premises. It’s been 3 years now since I took on the honour of leading the group and committee as President. It has been a great adventure and I’m very fortunate to have gotten to know and work with some amazing people. It is time though now for me to step aside and pass the baton. We haven’t yet had any nominations for a new President and I am asking if any of you would be willing to enjoy your own adventure as our leader. I am of course hoping to stay on the com-mittee and focus my available time on tutoring and creating a Marketing plan for our learning centre, this includes getting more interaction with our Facebook page. Our AGM is March 2019 so there’s time for you to consider this option, if you’d like to be more involved in some decisions but not ready for the “big” job, maybe considering a place on our committee. Thank you to each one of you who have attended courses, workshops and membership meetings. We’ve had some informative members meetings, our guest speakers have been of very high quality and already we have arranged some interesting people for 2019. Our yearly fees will of course be due from January and you’ll need to have these paid up to make sure you stay on the list for future email updates. If there is a particular subject you’d like to know, please register your interest at the office and we’ll do our best to offer a course or workshop. Coming up in the new year will be Windows 10, Google Photos, Gmail, iPad beginners and intermediate, Social Media 101 and Internet Banking. We want you to get the best out of your membership and to do this, we need your interest and feedback. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the 2018 committee and the volunteers who give their time in the office, tutoring and members days. A special thank you to Shirley Walters who has tirelessly run the office duties with her husband Allan, she’s bought the biscuits and milk and never once asked for any thanks. Next year Shirley will be stepping down from these duties. Again, if you have skills in office work, we want to hear from you!!
See you at the Christmas Party!!
Best Regards and seasons Greetings
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CHRISTMAS PARTY TIME
Join us for our annual Christmas Party
Wednesday 12th December 1.30pm - 3pm
SeniorNet learning centre on Princess Street.
We will enjoy some traditional Christmas music along
with drinks and finger food afternoon tea
All free of charge but do bring a few dollars for our special raffle prize,
sponsored and provided by Julia Wallace Retirement Village.
Wear something Christmassy — there will be a prize for the best Christmas dressed.
Please phone the office 3594367 (between 10 &12) or email the office before 5 December if you are coming
We need numbers for Catering purposes
SeniorNet Office Holiday Hours
Our Office will close on Friday 14th December
Next Year - the office will reopen for enrolments Monday day 11th February 2019
2019 Office Hours: 10am to 12pm Monday, Wednesday and Friday
For further information phone one of our committee or Allan 354,7206
iPad Learning Group Monthly Meeting
iPad User Group will meet at 1.30pm
on Wednesday 5th December
There will be a $3 fee. Please wear your
name badge. Contact: Mike Lawrence
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Tips for Handling Telemarketers Three Little Words That Work!! (1) The three little words are: 'Hold On, Please...' Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt. Then when you eventually hear the phone company's 'beep-beep-beep' tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task. These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.. (2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end? This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a 'real' sales person to call back and get someone at home. What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialled the call, and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!!! (3) Junk Mail Help: When you get ads enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these ads with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away. When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope. Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular postage, 'IF' and when they receive them back.
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Phone 06 358 6907 - Palmerston North
Copper Wire
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, British scientists found traces
of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that their
ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the Brit’s, in the weeks that followed, an American ar-
chaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story published in the New York Times:
“American archaeologists, finding traces of 250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ances-
tors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the British”.
One week later, the state’s Dept. of Minerals and Energy in Western Australia, reported the following:
“After digging as deep as 30 feet in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, Jack Lucknow, a self-taught
archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing.
Jack has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Australia had already gone wireless.”
Snowman and the Rabbit
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SENIORNET (PALMERSTON NORTH) INC Nominations for Officers and Committee 2019
Nominations shall be in writing, signed by the proposer, seconder and the person
nominated. Nomination forms to be in the hands of the Secretary no later than Friday,
22nd February 2019, in time to be posted on the club noticeboard 10 days prior to the
Annual General Meeting to be held on Wednesday 20th March 2019 at 1.30pm in
the SeniorNet Rooms 105 Princess Street, Palmerston North. If there is to be an
election, ONLY financial members will be eligible to vote.
Positions: President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Committee
Nomination Form:
Position:
Nominee:
Name:
Signature:
Nominator:
Name:
Signature:
Seconder:
Name:
Signature: